GREYTOWN STOCK SALE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11644, 23 August 1905, Page 2

GREYTOWN STOCK SALE.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Limited, held their Greytown stock sale on Monday, when there was an exceptionally large attendance of buyers. The chief attraction was the stud and other stock entered by the -trustees in tho estate of C. J. Tally. The purebred English Leicester ewes being to forward in lamb to remove from the paddock, were not penned, but left over lor private sale. The purebred Ayrshire " cattle elicited fair competition, but were not in general demand, and number of sales had to be effected privately. Prices for these ranged from 8 to 20 guineas, yearling heifers 4 to 5& guineas, weaner heifers 2{ guineas, 3-year bull 12 guineas. Only fourteen of th-a dairy herd wore disposed of, prices ruling from £3 10s to £7 ss. The draught horses being mostly pedi- " gree stock, and consequently high priced, did not soil freely, only one being disposed of at J33, though j£4o was refused for several others. Light horses reached «£l2 to .£l6. On other vendors' account, cwcb in lamb sold to 20s 3d, hoggots 13s 6d; a line of 12 dairy cows at £&, other cows from £3 2s 6d.